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Julius Caesar was Roman politician, military general, and a historian. He stabbed Caesar 23 times to death.
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The roman empire began in 27 BCE. It was the period of ancient roman civilisation.
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At this period Rome was at the greatest extent during 117 AC. At that time it was as large as at least five million km.
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Mostly known as 'Constantine the greatest' or 'Constantin I' who ruled between 306 and 337 AD. He was the first emporor of rome. An important event that influenced the reign of Constantine is that he made Christianity a lawful region in Rome
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Diocletian, from the actual name Diocles. He was an emperor, a ruler, from 284 to 305.
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Diocletian (or original name Diocles) was a Roman emperor from 284 - 305 AC. One of the reasons of why he was known for was because who restored the government to an empire after the 'near anarchy of the 3rd century'.
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In the times when Constantine was the Roman emperor, became legal in Rome. This happened throughout 306 - 337 CE.
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The finder and the Byzantine Empire first emperor, Constantine I, moved the capital of Rome to Byzantine, and called it Constantinople in 330. It became the largest city in the empire, when in 476 CE - the western roman empire fell apart
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The story to the first sack of Rome is hid in the myths and legends of the Roman history. But it most likely happened on July 18, 387.
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476, was the year when Romulus (the last Roman emperor) was overtaken by a Germanic leader Odoacer. He was the first Barbarian to rule Rome.
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Justinian, usually known as Justinian the great, was the eastern Roman emperor from 527 - 565 AC. His reign is marked because of his aspiring 'restoration of the empire'.
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"The Muslim conquest of the Maghreb"
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Battle of Tours, also known as Battle of Poitier, was the victory of 'the Frankish and Burgundian forces' over (other) invasion forces
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Also known as Karl and Charles the great, was an emperor in the medieval times, who ruled most of Western Europe from 768 - 814.
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In 860 Cyril had gone on a mission to the Arabs. In 862, Prince Rostislav asked Constantinople for missionaries. Cyril and Methodius were named. In 863 they started their work.
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East-West Schism also called the Great Schism, was basically the break of communications between what are now called the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches
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The process of the 'norse' (now known as vikings) explorers, warriors and traders, sailed most of north Atlantic.
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Crusades - series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims
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Magna Carta is a permit (charter) of rights agreed to by King John of England
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Mongol Invasion - this was a conquest of Europe by the mongol empire.
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Divine Comedy - a long narrative poem who's author is Dante Alighieri. He started writing it in 1308, and completed in 1320.
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This was a series of of conflicts that carried on throughout 1337 all the way to 1453, by England, France, and others.
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The Great Plague, or Black Death, a serious bacterial infection. It resulted the deaths of 'an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.'
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The return to Rome was the most influential made by Pope Gregory XI. Beginning on 13 September 1376.
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"Was a Czech theologian, philosopher, master, dean, and rector of the Charles University in Prague"
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The Florence cathedral was begun in 1296, and was finished in 1436. It's dome was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in around 1439. This was a huge revolution in print technology.
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May 29, 1453. "The fall of the Constantinople was an end of a great era for the Byzantine Empire."
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Lorenzo de' Medici - an Italian statesman.
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A chapel in the Apostolic Palace. The construction started in 1473 and was completed on August 15, 1483.
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Italian artist - Sandro Botticelli painted 'The Birth of Venus'. There is a lot of meaning to this piece of art.
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A movement within the Roman Catholic church. The main aim was to reform and improve it.
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Italian Renaissance artist - Leonardo da Vinci painted this portrait painting in 1503. Mona Lisa is described as the best known painting in the world.
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Was the king of England since April 22, 1509 until his death in 1547. He is best known for his six marriages.
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Also called 'The Praise of Folly', was an essay written in latin by Desiderius Erasmus (a dutch humanist) and was finally published in 1511
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The 95 theses is basically a list of questions and topics for debate. It is likely that Martin Luther nailed a copy of the 95 thesis to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church on October 31, 1517
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Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory is an astronomical model, that was developed by Nicolaus Copernicus printed in 1543
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Elizabeth I - the queen of England and Ireland since 1558 until hear death in 1603.
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The microscope was invented in around the 1590's, that literally changed the world. Though it is still unclear of who invented the microscope (either Zacharias Janssen or Hans Lippershey).
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Globe theatre - a theatre in London that was built by William Shakespeare's playing company in the 1599. Thought it was destroyed in 1613.
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Kepler's laws of planetary motion:
1) The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.
2) A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.[1]
3) The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit published between 1609 and 1619 -
In 1616 the Catholic church warned Galileo to not defend Copernicus or there will be consequences. In 1632 however he went against their warning and published a book that clearly supported Copernicus theory.
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This was a 17th century conflict mainly fought throughout the central Europe. It is known as on of the most longest and harsh wars in human history. It lasted from 1618 to 1648
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A philosophy work by Francis Bacon. Was written in latin and published in 1620.
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Galileo was the first one to discover that the moon also had mountains, just like earth. In 1632 he published a book that stated the earth orbited the sun, thought after he got arrested.
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Was a series of peace treaties (an agreement) signed between May and October 1648.
